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Leigh Ledare
Leigh Ledare (Seattle, Washington, USA 1976). Lives and works in New York, USA. He holds a BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Washington and a MFA from Columbia University, New York.
Leigh Ledare’s work has been the subject of major international exhibitions, most recently at The Museum of the Arts Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Manifesta 11, Zurich; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; WIELS, Brussels; The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow and Les Rencontres de Arles, among others.
Installation view Leigh Ledare, et al. Wiels, Brussels, 2012
Leigh Ledare creates work that raises questions of agency, intimacy and consent, transforming the observer into the voyeur of private scenes or situations dealing with social taboos. Using photography, the archive, language, and film, he explores notions of subjectivity in a performative dimension, his interventions putting in tension the realities of social constructions and the projective assumptions that surround them.
The Task, 2017
Ledare filmed The Task during a three-day Group Relations Conference, a social psychology method developed by London’s Tavistock Institute that the artist organized in Chicago.
Leigh Ledare, Plots, 2017
Leigh Ledare’s Plots were among those works produced for the artist’s 2017-2018 solo exhibition The Plot at The Art Institute of Chicago. Presented in two adjacent spaces, the interconnected works in this exhibition stemmed from Ledare’s interventions into a method of systems-based social psychology developed at the London’s Tavistock Institute by the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion.
Vokzal is a looping, 16mm film shot by Leigh Ledare in 2016. Running nearly 60-minutes, Vokzal uses the sprawling public space connecting three Moscow train stations as a rubric for mapping latent social dynamics.
The Children drawings are an ongoing series Ledare started to make in 2012. For each work, Ledare invited a different three-year-old child to draw in oil pastels directly over an image of his mother.
Pretend You’re Actually Alive, the artist’s best-known work and his most subversive to date, was made in collaboration with his aging ex-ballerina mother over a period of eight years.
An Invitation (2012)
Seven hand-fed photolithographic prints on archival newsprint, with silkscreen and pencil additions, matboard, polished aluminium frames. Laserjet contract and vitrine.
91 x 47.5 in
For Double Bind, Ledare traveled alone to a remote cabin in Upstate New York with his recently remarried ex-wife, Meghan Ledare-Fedderly, photographing her over the course of three nights. Two months after this initial trip (upon Ledare’s initiative and funded by the artist), his ex-wife returned to the same location with her current husband.
Leigh Ledare
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Born 1976, Seattle, Washington
Lives and works in New York City
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2008 MFA Visual Art Columbia University
2000 BFA Rhode Island School of Design
1994-1997 University of Washington
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2022 To you who make the springtime, I send my winter, Michéle Didier Gallery, Paris, France
2021 XX XX (with Nicolas Guagnini), Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany
Zurich, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 l’Hôte, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
2017 The Plot, The Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Vokzal, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2016 place du jardin aux fleurs, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
The Here and the Now, Manifesta 11 curated by Christian Jankowski, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 Double Bind, Art Unlimited at Art Basel, curated by Gianni Jetzer, Basel, Switzerland
2014 Ana and Carl, and Some Other Couples (with Nicolas Guagnini), Max Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Leigh Ledare, Mitchell-Innes and Nash, NYC
Ana and Carl, and some other couples (with Nicolas Guagnini), Andrew Roth, NYC
2013 Leigh Ledare, et al. (solo survey) curated by Elena Filipovic, Kunsthal Charlottenberg, Copenhagen, Denmark
An Invitation, RECEPTION, Berlin, Germany
2012 Leigh Ledare, et al.(solo survey) curated by Elena Filipovic, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Double Bind Publication. Michele Didier Gallery, Paris, France
An Invitation, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, England
Leigh Ledare, The Box, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Something Might Have Been Better than Nothing… with Per Billgren, RECEPTION, Berlin, Germany
2010 Double Bind, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Double Bind, Prix Découverte, curated by Ruf, Obrist, Eccles, Parreno and Gillick, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
Le Tit, Guido Costa Projects, Turin, Italy
The Confectioner’s Confectioner, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, England
Too Late and Later, Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2009 Leigh Ledare, Les Rencontres de Arles. Arles, France
2008 You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air, Rivington Arms, New York, NY
Pretend You’re Actually Alive, Andrew Roth Gallery, NYC
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2022
Love Songs, curated by Simon Baker, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
2021
Grand Prototypes, Humble Tools, curated by Prem Krishnamurthy, Front Triennial, Cleveland, Ohio
2020
Faktura, KIM? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
2019
Acting Out (Works from the Hessel Collection), curated by Leigh Ledare and Tom Eccles, Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annondale-on-Hudson, NY
Straying from the Line, Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin, Germany
Lignes de Vies, curated by Frank Lamy, Musee d’art Contemporain du Val-de Marne, France
Diaristic Photography and the Photobook, curated by Sarah Allen, Tate Modern, London, UK
50 Years, 50 Books: Masterworks from the Library of Martin Parr, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
50 Years, 50 Books: Masterworks from the Library of Martin Parr, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
On Fire, curated by Benedikt Wyss, SALTS Birsfelden, Basel, Switzerland
Empathy Clinic, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2018
Measures of Authority, with Chris Kraus and Terence Sellers, Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annondale-on-Hudson.
Group Therapy, Frye Art Museum. Seattle, WA. September 15th
Defacement, The Club. Tokyo, Japan. July
Frieze New York, The Box Gallery, with Stan Vanderbeek, New York
Putting Out, Gavin Brown Enterprises, New York, June
Smiles Without Freedom, curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Tomas Vu, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY
2017
The Whitney Biennial (curated by Christopher Lew and Mia Locks), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Roberte Ce Soir: Pierre Klossowski, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
Anna and Carl, and Some Other Couples, Samlung Philaria Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
Vocales, CAC Bretigny, France
The Public Body, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Feedback, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
2016
Give Me Yesterday, Foundation Prada, Milan, Italy
The Here and the Now (screening curated by Laura McClean Ferris),The Swiss Institute, New York
An Invitation, Samlung Philara Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
Bread and Roses, Artists and the Class Divide (curated by Natalia Seilewicz), MoMA Warsaw, Poland
Private Exposure, Samlung Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany
LOVE, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York
Invisible Adversaries: Valie Export(curated by Tom Eccles and Lauren Cornell), Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Manifesta 11 (curated by Christian Jankowski), Zurich, Switzerland
2015
Kyiv Biennial, School of Realism (curated by John Miller), Kiev, Ukraine
Art Unlimited at Art Basel (curated by Gianni Jetzer), Basel, Switzerland
Sexe, Beatitude et Logique Compatable, Michele Didier, Paris, France
Sitter, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
Between Strength and Crisis. LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
2014
Boys Don’t Cry, Musee D’art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France.
La Vie Domestique, Parc Saint Leger Centre D’Art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
It Happens Without You, Kendall Koppe Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks, ICA, London, England
Simulacrum (with Pierre Klossowski and Dan Graham),Max Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Bad Conscience (curated by John Miller), Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Layers Thaw, Minerva Gallery, Sidney, Australia
2013
Home Truths (curated by Susan Bright) Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks, PS1/MoMA, New York
5th Moscow Bienniale (special Project curated by Ami Barak, Pomeranz Collection), Moscow, Russia.
News/Prints: Printmaking & The Newspaper, International Print Center, New York
9 Ways to Say It’s Over, Farringdon St., London, England
Revelations, Stonescape (curated by Thea Westreich and Susan Modica), Calistoga, CA
Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities: Lens Drawings (curated by Jens Hoffman), Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Lips Painted Red, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway.
Secession Secession (curated by Colby Bird), Fitzroy Gallery, New York
Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
Nevermore, On Stellar Rays Gallery, New York
2012
The Hidden Mother (curated by Sinziana Ravini), Hotel Particulier de B. Morisot, Paris, France
Privacy (curated by Martina Weinhart), Shirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Collaborations and Interventions, Kunsthalle Andratx, Majorca, Spain
Take Off Your Silver Spurs and Help Me Pass the Time, Galerie Ruzicska, Saltzburg, Austria
Fremde Überall. Pomeranz Collection, The Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria
Desire, Bergen Museum of Art, Bergen, Norway
New Americans 2 (curated by Ami Barak), Michel Rein Gallery, Paris, France
2011
Reprise (curated by LaToya Ruby Fraser), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Sex Drive, Atlanta Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade, National Photographic Archive, Dublin, Ireland
A Hole Is to Dig, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Cult of the Ruin: Strategies of Accumulation, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
LAXART Curator’s Choice Video Show, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Sex Drive, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
Home Videos, Leigh Ledare and Kenneth Tam, Loisaida, New York
2010
How Soon Is Now, (curated by Beatrix Ruf, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Philippe Parreno), The Garage CCC, Moscow, Russia
Which Witch is Which? (curated by Ajay Kurian), White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
Luma Discovery Award (curated by Ruf, Obrist, Eccles, Gillick, Parreno). Les Rencontres d’Arles.
Greater New York 2010 (curated by Cornelia Butler, Klaus Biesenbach, Neville Wakefield), MoMA/PS1, New York
No More Presence, Leigh Ledare and Corinne Jones, Gresham’s Ghost, New York
They Have Not the Art to Argue with Pictures: After Heinecken, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
Support Group, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
So Be It: Interventions in Printed Matter, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
Leigh Ledare screenings, Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkely, CA
2009
I’m So Sad, My God (curated by Martha Kirtzenbaum), ISCP, New York
Dance, Sons and Daughters, Dance! The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
Selected Works (curated by Laurie Simmons), Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York
Prague Biennale 4, Prague, Czech Republic
Re-Gift (curated by John Miller), Swiss Institute, New York
House Call (curated by Alex Gardenfeld and Piper Marshal), Three’s Company, New York
Ca Me Touche (curated by Nan Goldin), with Boris Mikhailov, Arles, France
N-1, Patino Foundation, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Frieze Art Fair (Leigh Ledare and Reena Spaulings), Greene Naftali booth, London, England
2008
Freeway Balconies (curated by Nancy Spector, Collier Schorr), Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Open Secret, International Center of Photography, New York
Closer Now, Rivington Arms, New York
Columbia University MFA Thesis Show, Fischer-Landau Center, New York
EPTSOLP (curated by Chris Johanson), Small a Projects, Portland, OR
Blindspot Benefit Auction, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
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2022 Personal Commissions, poster edition. Published by michéle didier, Brussels/Paris
2019 Between a Punk and Picasso: 2019/1998, broadsheet containing essay by Leigh Ledare accompanied by photographs of Ledare taken by Larry Clark, and vise versa. Published by PPP Editions/Andrew Roth, New York
2015 Double Bind (essays and conversations) coauthored with Rhea Anastas. Artist edition for Art Resources Transfer Press
2014 Ana and Carl, and Some Other Couples (with Nic Guagnini), published by PPP Editions/Andrew Roth, New York
2012 Double Bind (3 volumes: Ephemera, Husbands, Diptychs) Published by mfc-michele didier, Brussels/Paris
2012 Leigh Ledare, et al. Published by WIELS Center for Contemporary Art and Mousse Publishing,Brussels
2012 An Invitation. Published by Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, New York
2011 A Modest Exchange, Artist edition curated by Tom Eccles for Invisible Exports, New York
2008 Pretend You’re Actually Alive, PPP Editions/Andrew Roth, New York
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2021 NA JA, color 16mm film with sound, 47 minutes
2017 The Task, single channel HD video with sound, 118 minutes
2016 Vokzal, Color 16mm Film with sound and installation, 60 minutes
2016 The Here and the Now (Zurich 1:1) (13 channel video installation), approximately 16 hours
2016 The Large Group, subtitled, single-channel video, 68 minutes
2008 The Gift, single channel video, 9 minutes and 18 seconds
2008 The Model, Single channel video, 4 minutes and 5 seconds
2008 Shoulder, Single channel video, 8 minutes and 45 seconds
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2021
Leigh Ledare and Nicolas Guagnini, Conversation around the exhibition ‘XX XX’ at Meyer Riegger Gallery, Berlin
Kenigsberg, Ben, ‘Three Great Documentaries to Stream’, New York Times, December 3
Steinberg, Rachel, ‘The Task’, The Marieluise Hessel Collection Volumes 1 & 2, CCS BARD Hessel Museum of Art
Walsh, Maria, ‘Leigh Ledare’s pharmacological aesthetics of group analysis’, Therapeutic Aesthetics (pgs 107-125), Bloomsbury Academic
2019
Pinaka, AnnaMaria, ‘”Dirtiness” and Self-Objectification’, I Confess, McGill-Queen’s University Press
Grau, Donatien, ‘After the Crisis’ (discussion with Ledare, Jeff Rosenheim, Elisabeth Bronfen), Diaphanes
Leigh Ledare, ‘Between a Punk and Picasso’ (on Larry Clark’s punk Picasso), Roth/PPP
Malone, Callan, ‘Therapy or Art? Leigh Ledare Curates the Hessel Collection’, Cultured Magazine, June
Campbell, Victoria, ‘The Safeword Is Post-Studio Practice’, Spike Magazine, July
Doran, Anne, ‘In Museums (review of Acting Out)’, Collector Daily, Sept
2018
Jordan Raup, ‘2018 Best-of-Year List’, Film Comment Magazine, December
Chris Kraus, ‘Pretend You’re Actually Alive’, Social Practices, MIT Press
Maria Walsh, ‘Art: A Suitable Case for Treatment?’, Art Monthly, April
Eric Hynes, ‘This Is Not a Test: Leigh Ledare’, Film Comment Magazine, November
Steve McFarlane, ‘Leigh Ledare’s The Task’, Bomb Magazine, September
Will Heinrich, ‘Putting Out’, New York Times, July 31
Penny Rafferty, ‘Interview with Leigh Ledare’, Elephant Magazine, Fall
Ben Kenigsberg, ‘4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend’, New York Times, June 28
Nicolas Rapold, ‘Leigh Ledare’s The Task’, Film Comment Magazine, May/June
Calum Marsh, ‘BAM Cinemafest’, The Village Voice, June 18th
Sam Adams, ‘The Task is a Movie that Makes You Feel Like You’re Being Watched’, Slate, March 13
Vikram Murthi, ‘The Task’, RogerEbert.com, March 8
Roberta Smith, ‘On the Hunt for Artistic Gems at Frieze’, New York Times, May 3
Nick Pinkerton, ‘Creative Nonfiction’, Artforum.com, July 3
2017
Steel Stillman, ‘In the Studio’ cover and interview, Art in America, December
Lori Waxman, ‘Leigh Ledare at The Art Institute of Chicago’, Chicago Tribune, Nov 9
Brian Droitcour, ‘Overview: The National Exhibition’, Art in America, May 26
Jerry Saltz, Whitney Biennial Review, Vulture.com, March 14
Chris Sharp, ‘Double Take—Whitney Biennial 2017’, Art Agenda, March 21
Adam Lehrer, Whitney Biennial Review, Forbes, March 14
2016
Ellen Mara De Wachter, ‘Critic’s Guide: Brussels’, Frieze Magazine, December
Rhea Anastas, reprint of ‘introductory essay for Double Bind (conversations)’, May Review #16
Rhea Anastas and Leigh Ledare, ‘Double Bind: An Excerpt’, Brooklyn Rail, February
Christy Lange, ‘Manifesta 11’, Frieze Magazine, June
Tom Eccles and Lauren Cornell, ‘Invisible Adversaries’ (catalog), Hessel Museum of Art, Bard CCS
2015
Leigh Ledare and Rhea Anastas, ‘Double Bind (book length conversation)’, Art Resources Transfer Press
Chris Kraus, ‘Leigh Ledare by Chris Kraus’, Bomb Magazine, summer issue
Mathieu Mercier, ‘Sexe, Beautitude et Logique Comptable’ at Michel Didier, Paris, Art Review, February
Leigh Ledare, ‘Le Tit’, Metal Magazine,
2014
‘Interview’, Travel Almanac,
Jonathan T.D. Neil, ‘Leigh Ledare, Mitchell-Innes and Nash’, Art Review Magazine, Summer
Chelsea Haines, ‘Leigh Ledare, Mitchell-Innes and Nash’,Artforum.com, April
Piper Marshall, ‘The Costliness of Our Attachments,John Miller’s Bad Conscience’, Texte zur Kunst, May
Jerry Saltz, ‘Him and Him and Her’, New York Magazine, April 6
Holland Cotter, ‘Where Blue-Chip Brands Meet Brassy Outliers’, New York Times, April 3.
Coleen Kelsey, ‘Leigh Ledare, In Public and Private’, Interview Magazine,
Zoe Lescaze, ‘Unknown Pleasures’, New York Observer,
Jason Farago, Bad Conscience, Artforum.com, February
Carmen Winant, Leigh Ledare, ‘Shoulder, process interview’, The Believer, March
Kathy Noble ‘Yes, But, or Maybe, or Perhaps, or Probably’, Tate, etc Magazine, Spring
2013
Leigh Ledare, ‘A Hole, but a Flattened Down Hole (essay on Mike Kelley)’, Texte zur Kunst, March
Andrew Roth, ‘Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists’ Scrapbooks’, Andrew Roth, PPP Editions
Robert Ayers, ‘Unmanageable Identity in the work of Leigh Ledare’, Eikon Journal of Photography, Sept
Leigh Ledare (contributing curator),10x10, American Photo Books, International Center of Photography
Marie Carsten Pedersen, ‘Leigh Ledare, et al. Kunsthal Charlottenborg’, 5-page feature, Politiken, Jan 18
Louise Staugaard Mortensen, ‘Leigh Ledare, et al. Kunsthal Charlottenborg’, Kunstavisen, February
Bent Bludnikow, ‘Kulturbattle: interviewing Jacob Fabricius and Pia Kjaersgaard’, Kulturogaok, Feb 22
Susan Bright, ‘Home Truths’(catalog), Photographer’s Gallery London
Sean O’Hagan, ‘Oedipal Exporsure’, The Guardian, October
2012
Mousse Diary, ‘Leigh Ledare, et al..’, Mousse Magazine, November.
Kathy Noble, ‘Leigh Ledare’, Frieze Magazine, November
Elena Filipovic, ‘The Mother of Photography’, published in Leigh Ledare, et al., Mousse/WIELS
Nicolas Guagnini, ‘Pretend You’re Actually Dead’, published in Leigh Ledare, et al., Mousse/WIELS
David Joselit, ‘Ledare interviewed by Joselit’, published in Leigh Ledare, et al., Mousse/WIELS
‘Leigh Ledare, et al.’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Oct 23
Martina Weinhart, Max Hollein, ‘Privacy’ (catalog), Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
‘Interview’, M Magazine, September
‘Mutters Nackte Haut’, Monopol Magazine, December 30
Andrew Bernardini, ‘Leigh Ledare at the Box’, Art Review, May
Andrew Bernardini, ‘Leigh Ledare at The Box, Michel Auder at Kayne Griffin Corcoran’, Los Angeles Weekly, April 12
Leah Ollman, ‘Leigh Ledare at The Box’, Los Angeles Times, April 5
Agata Araszkiewicz, ‘Leigh Ledare’, Czas Kultury
2011
Leigh Ledare, ‘Artist’s Artist picks: Leigh Ledare on Nic Guagnini’, Artforum, December
Martin Parr, ‘Best Books of the Decade’, National Photographic Archive, Dublin, Ireland
Kaja Silverman, Tim Griffin, Andre Rottmann, ‘How Soon Is Now’ (catalog), LUMA Foundation
Michele Faguet, ‘Per Billgen and Leigh Ledare: RECEPTION’ , Artforum Magazine, June
Mark Rappolt, ‘Something Might Have Been Better than Nothing’, Art Review Magazine, June
Elena Filipovich, Hilary Lloyd and Leigh Ledare, ‘All This Happened, More or Less’,Kaleidescope Magazine, March
Shelley Fox Aarons, ‘Double Bind’, Fantom Magazine,
Susan Bright, ‘Art Photography Now’, Phaidon
Scott Indrisek, ‘Leigh Ledare feature’, Modern Painters, February
Leigh Ledare, Angst Magazine, February
Julie Boukobza, ‘New York Art Scene’, ArtPress, March
2010
Simon Baker, Double Bind, 1000wordsmag.com, September
Paul Carey-Kent, ‘Best Shows of 2010’, Saatchi Online Magazine
Simon Bainbridge, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, British Journal of Photograph, August
Jerry Saltz, ‘Sincerity and Irony Hug it Out’, PS1/MoMA Greater NY, New York Magazine, May
Roberta Smith, ‘Take Me Out to the Big Show in Queens’, PS1 Greater NY, New York Times, May 27
Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, ‘Decade’s 10 Best Photo Books’, British Journal of Photography
2009
TJ Carlin, ‘Counterpart’, MAP Magazine, June
Sean O’Hagan, ‘Sons, lovers… and weird things about mothers’, The Guardian, July 12th
Christy Lange, ‘Focus’, Frieze Magazine, May
Brian Sholis, ‘Re-gift, Swiss Institute’, NY,Artforum, May
Leigh Ledare, Visual Essay, Purple Magazine, Winter Issue
Feature on the Artist, Leigh Ledare, Der Spiegel, Jan
Beatrix Ruf, ‘Most Significant Emerging Artists of 2008’, Frieze Magazine, January
2008
Adriano Sacks, Interview, Monopol Magazin, December
Michael Wilson, ‘You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air’, Time Out New York, October 8
Critics picks: ‘You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air’, The New Yorker, October
David Velasco, ‘Leigh Ledare’, Pretend You’re Actually Alive, Artforum, September
Nancy Spector, Collier Schorr, ‘Freeway Balconies’ (catalogue), Deutsche Guggenheim
Thomas Micchelli, ‘Leigh Ledare: You Are Nothing To Me. You Are Like Air’, Brooklyn Rail, Oct
George Pitts, interview, S Magazine, September
Leigh Ledare, ‘Personal Commissions’, The Journal, September
Karen Rosenberg, ‘Leigh Ledare’,The New York Times, June 6th
Critics pick: ‘Pretend You’re Actually Alive’,The New Yorker, May
R.C. Baker, My Mom’s Crotch, The Village Voice, May
The Book Bench, Review of Show at ICP, The New Yorker, November 13